Hello Noisebridge!<br><br>I have an item up for potential consensus, and wanted to get people&#39;s initial feedback on it. As some of you may know, I&#39;ve been busy this year starting up a makerspace <a href="http://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com/">http://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com/</a> in the east bay that is focused on bridging some gaps in STEM+AE (science, technology, eng, math, arts, entrepreneurship). We have a space, and we are about to engage in kickstarter/indie go go fundraising. <br>
<br>Here&#39;s the deal: we aren&#39;t incorporated yet, and don&#39;t have 501c3 status. This is sort of a glitch when it comes to fundraising because it introduces personal tax liability on one of us until our incorporation comes through. However, we have a sort of chicken+egg on doing the incorporation since all of our funds are currently tied up in maintaining rent for the space :). <br>
<br>One of the things we are looking at is a fiscal sponsor for the fundraising process, and potentially thinking about noisebridge as a solution. It would mean that incoming funds would go into Noisebridge&#39;s account, to be transferred at a later point once we get our paperwork through. Noisebridge isn&#39;t the only potential fiscal sponsor we are looking at, but it would be a natural fit for one successful hackerspace to help startup another one :)<br>
<br>Look forward to your thoughts,<br>Love,<br>Praveen<br>